Abstracts tagged "population studies and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)"

Abstract Number: 2629 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2014
Childhood-Onset and Adult-Onset Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: Distinctions in an Underserved Ethnic Minority Cohort
Rebekah Neal¹, Kimberly DeQuattro², Elizabeth C. Ortiz¹ and Francisco P. Quismorio Jr. ³, ¹Rheumatology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, ²LAC+USC Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, ³Div of Rheum & Immun, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Background/Purpose: Previous studies suggest differences between childhood-onset SLE (cSLE) and adult onset SLE (aSLE). Whereas the prevalence of nephritis, neuropsychiatric, dermatologic, and hematologic manifestations are…
Abstract Number: 1067 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2013
Incidence and Prevalence Of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: A 2010 Nation-Wide Population-Based Study Using French National Administrative Databases
Laurent Arnaud¹, Jean-Paul Fagot², Michel Païta², Alexis Mathian³, Anne Fagot-Campagna² and Zahir Amoura⁴, ¹Internal Medicine, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, AP-HP, UPMC Univ Paris 06 & French National Reference Center For Systemic Lupus and Antiphospholipid Syndrome, Paris, France, ²Caisse Nationale d’Assurance Maladie des Travailleurs Salariés, Paris, France, ³Internal Medicine Dpt 2, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, APHP, Paris, France, ⁴Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, AP-HP, UPMC Univ Paris 06 & French National Reference Center For Systemic Lupus and Antiphospholipid Syndrome, Paris, France
Background/Purpose: To date, only a small number of studies have examined the epidemiology of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) on a nation-wide basis. These studies were…
Abstract Number: 2274 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2012
Genes Associated with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Show Evidence of Selection in the Gullah African American Population
Paula S. Ramos¹, Satria Sajuthi², Yiqi Huang³, Diane L. Kamen⁴, Jasmin Divers², Kenneth M. Kaufman⁵, John B. Harley⁶, Robert P. Kimberly⁷, Carl D. Langefeld², Michèle M. Sale³, W. Timothy Garvey⁸ and Gary S. Gilkeson⁹, ¹Department of Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, ²Department of Biostatistical Sciences, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, ³Department of Medicine and Center for Public Health Genomics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, ⁴Department of Medicine, Arthritis & Clinical Immunology Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Charleston, SC, ⁵1Center for Autoimmune Genomics and Etiology and Rheumatology Division, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and the University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, ⁶Division of Rheumatology and The Center for Autoimmune Genomics & Etiology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, ⁷Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ⁸Department of Nutrition Sciences and Birmingham VA Medical Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ⁹Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
Background/Purpose: In spite of its higher prevalence and severity, little is known about the genetic etiology of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) in African Americans (AA).…